Arghhhhh!!! Not Bagpuss, anything but that!! If he has any saving grace, it's that he's pink.

Now you asked for it Bart!! Here be another hideous kids TV character back at ye. Here be Darryl and Ozzie Ostrich, in full pirate regalia by the way.

That should fix ye!!

Ossie was a good-natured pink ostrich puppet who sported a light blue mohawk hairstyle. Ossie formed a comic duo with the host of the show, Daryl Somers. Typically, Ossie would provide the comic foil to Somers' straight man. Ossie was conceived as a puppet sidekick when Hey Hey It's Saturday was a children's show which aired on Saturday mornings in the 1970s and early '80s, but the comic skill of Somers and Ossie's puppeteer...

- but he was almost certainly the most recognisable puppet in Australia for more than two decades.